Arduino map function

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There might already be a map function in NETMF but I’m not able to find it, so I stole some code from Arduino.
The map function is useful when you need to map a value from a known range over to another range. For example my control system gives me rudder values for my boat in the range -40 to +40 and I needed to map this over to servo period values ranging from 800 to 2200.
The map function looks like this;

private uint map(int x, int in_min, int in_max, int out_min, int out_max)
{
   int Puls = (x - in_min) * (out_max - out_min) / (in_max - in_min) + out_min;
   return (uint)Puls;
}

And it is used like this;


if (_newPos != _currentPos)
{
   _currentPos = _newPos;
   uint Puls = map(_currentPos, -40, 40, 800, 2200);
   Rudder.SetPulse(20 * 1000 * 1000, Puls * 1000);
}
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Yeah this has been talked about before. I don’t think one exists yet. Feel free to code one up though.

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Chris already posted this (if I’m right).
You might want to add a project page for it so that future users can find it easily?

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Well I couldnt find it. -Is it me or is the search function on this forum rather useless?

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Search pointed me to this topic, so I do not agree with the search being useless. It works fine if you ask me? :slight_smile:

See Chris’ post (3rd one)
[url]http://www.tinyclr.com/forum/4/231/[/url]

private long map(long x, long in_min, long in_max, long out_min, long out_max)
{
return (x - in_min) * (out_max - out_min) / (in_max - in_min) + out_min;
}
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A follow up question to the search function.
How does one search for the word ‘map and not get 100% relevance on remap, maping, mapped ect.

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I don’t really think there really is a way to manipulate the search in that way.

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Me neither.